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    Derek Chauvin pleads guilty to violating George Floyd's civil rights

    "Nobody is above the law, and nobody is beneath it," said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, calling Chauvin's change of plea "important and historic."
    by Bill Chappell Dec 15, 2021 1 minute
    Philonise Floyd, George Floyd's brother, speaks during a press conference outside the U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn., on Wednesday, after Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty to federal civil rights charges in George Floyd's murder.

    Derek Chauvin has pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of George Floyd, the man he was found guilty of murdering. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, is white; Floyd was Black.

    Chauvin is , serving a 22 ½-year sentence that a Minnesota judge

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